"Once the two hypotheses have been defined, the first hypothesis is scarcely mentioned again -- attention focuses solely on the null hypothesis. It makes me la

"Once the two hypotheses have been defined, the first hypothesis is scarcely mentioned again -- attention focuses solely on the null hypothesis. It makes me laugh to write this, but it's true! The null hypothesis is accepted or rejected purely on the basis of how unexpected the data were to H0, not on how much better H1 predicted the data." http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/457.466.ps.gz http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/457.466....